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Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod
In the rare cases where they die on holiday and their families cannot afford repatriation.
It costs several thousands, I believe. Insurance is about £15 per week.
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Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod
In the rare cases where they die on holiday and their families cannot afford repatriation.
It costs several thousands, I believe. Insurance is about £15 per week.
Agreed, the amount of crowd funding, pleas for help from folk sick I’ll or injured without insurance is ridiculous.Quote:
Originally Posted by pollution
Gotcha ta.Quote:
Originally Posted by pollution
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Two from me and they are linked.
Firstly people who don't adhere to rules at an events, organisers who don't enforce the rules and why we leave the rules in place if they aren't enforceable or there's no desire to do so. I was running at the weekend and the rules clearly stated only bone conduction headphones were allowed, breach of this rule was a disqualification. At the start there was the inevitable site of hundreds of runners putting all manner of headphones into their ears and setting of. Do I want to see people disqualified for this considering a lot of people train with music? Probably not but it's annoying. Firstly on tighter stretches of track or road if I want to overtake someone I often can't because they can't hear me coming and carry on blocking people behind them oblivious to anything else going on. Secondly if the rule isn't going to be enforced just get rid of it; state on the entry form that if you can't hear traffic, other runners or marshals then any injury or accident is your responsibility and be done with it.
The second peeve is littering. I ****ing despise littering. It's so pointless and it's just unadulterated laziness. At the same running event a lady in front of me went into her pocket, took out an energy gel, used it then threw the empty wrapper on the ground. Why? If you can carry it full then why can't you carry it empty? I picked it up and handed it to her and said 'I think you dropped this.' She seemed a bit puzzled for some reason. Again it was stated in the rules litter should be disposed of properly, I often find this is a particularly common way of acting amongst active people who really should know better. The number of hillwalkers I see tossing banana peels and the like onto the ground on mountains is scary. When you challenge them you get a 'it will degrade mate'. Maybe at 20 degrees over a few months but at -1 near the summit of a mountain it's going to lie there for years. These lazy barstewards rely on other people cleaning up after them though and they know someone else will pick it up.
Amen to all that, though I don't think active people should be singled out for special scorn. The huge amount of litter on roads leading into and out of Edinburgh is almost all thrown there by people sitting on their ***** in cars. More trouble to lower the window than to take your crap home with you, but there you go. They've paid their road tax - who are we to tell them how to behave?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
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Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
McDonalds cars parks and the general area of roads around McDonalds are bad for litter.
I really hate littering, people who leave rubbish on a train instead of putting it into the bin. I do the same PB, excuse me but you left this on your seatQuote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
People in tenement buildings that are quite happy for others to put out their bins, without a word of thanks. My old man has stopped doing it at last. The oldest folk in the stair put theirs out, seems to be below the younger folk in the stair.
Nobody takes a turn cleaning the stairs either. Were they born in a barn?Quote:
Originally Posted by HUTCHYHIBBY
With all the rented flats now, the life in stairs has really deteriorated.
No-one wants to clean a stair but often folks are willing to chip in to pay someone else to do it. Sometimes just needs someone to start a ball rolling.Quote:
Originally Posted by heretoday
Life in stairs is gruesome when you realise that this week is your turn for the back passage.Quote:
Originally Posted by heretoday
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I shouldnt really laugh but this comment has cracked me upQuote:
Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod
It must have been covered already, impatient folk at baggage carousels.
Just back from a (wet) week away on the Costa Blanca and both going there, and on the return we encountered the same idiots at the baggage reclaim carousel,,,, most people were standing back a bit so you could see the bags coming along but this family barged in and blocked off about 4 metres with themselves and trolleys then proceeded to poke at nearly every bag that passed (is this ours, is this ours, is this ours?).
An exasperating experience!
Folk who say eXpresso rather than eSpresso.
It doesn't really matter obviously but it really grates on me.
Modern day Coffee snobs. :greengrin
People are feared to engage with their fellow stair dwellers though. It's a sign of the times and quite scary.Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
Anyone standing with their shins against the carousel should be tasered - You could still approach carefully over the twitching bodies to reach your case, and the view would be quite clear.Quote:
Originally Posted by speedy_gonzales
Queuing, I'm at Disneyland Paris and wondering why the **** I've done this to myself....AGAIN
You keep going to those mickey mouse outfits.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
Trying to distinguish which of MWC’s posts are satire and which are serious.
Facebook. I hate Facebook. However, I need it for info on the kids activities (my own, not other peoples).
Dog-gate caught my eye, next thing you lose half and hour reading comments of strangers with poor spelling going radge at strangers with equally bad spelling.
**** you zuckerberg!!!
After scoring a goal, football players all seem to point a finger on each hand towards the sky and look up at it whilst mumbling something.
Messi started it, I think, but everyone's getting in on the act.
Does my head in.
Steven Fletcher was doing it before Messi I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibbyradge
On a similar note it seems to be the done thing now for sportsman to talk to each other behind their hands now, I know why they’re apparently doing it but gee us peace, It’s not necessary all the time is it?!
Yes, that irks too.Quote:
Originally Posted by bingo70
It's as if every word they say is hugely important, top secret and valuable.
Up themselves.
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Originally Posted by Hibbyradge
John Collins did it at Hampden after the League Cup win in 2007. At least he said it was for his late father.
Fletcher also does it as a tribute to his father. Messi does it as a tribute to his grandmother as she is the one that used to take him to training as a kid and Danny Swason did it as a tribute to his pal Shaun.Quote:
Originally Posted by pollution
Not something that peeves me in the slightest tbh
The loss of a sense of humour in society in general these days.
Folk are desperate to take offence - and I'm not talking PC brigade stuff here, I consider myself to be PC and have a good idea (I think) of where the lines are that shouldn't be crossed.
I know the calendar thread (for those of an age) want everyone's cup of tea, or the 'blame Petrie' thread, but they had some genuinely funny posts in them that simply wouldn't fly these days without people taking the hump and the thread ending up being locked down or whatever as nobody can take a joke.
The fact that people have to spell out that they're not being serious sometimes is criminal, imho.
Totally agree, a good idea to keep in touch with friends and family maybe all over the world turned into an invasive monster. Full of fake ****, people sharing fake **** and crap you're not interested in. I've just unfriended the vast majority of my friends (who I see all the time anyway) and once I get alternative contact details from the others, whatsapp etc. it's getting binned.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fuzzywuzzy
Andy Murray does it. Possible/probable Dunblane connection? For an old atheist like me it's utterly pointless, but if the player concerned genuinely feels emotional and in his head wants to dedicate a win or a goal to absent friends or family then I see no problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibbyradge
Couldn't agree more. I made a similar point before actually using both those threads as examples.Quote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
I think it's something to do with absent friends in Andy's case.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bangkok Hibby
I remember the post - I agreed with that as well. :agree:Quote:
Originally Posted by My_Wife_Camille
This poppy stuff on social media.
“Keep the poppy going”
“This is not racist blah blah”
**** off. I’ve never heard anyone say it’s racist.
Eye catching Hibs result headline that turns out to be about womens' football.
Scottish folk on Twitter trying to be witty and typing in their accent for retweets and likes. Usually attention seeking slappers from the west. Boils my piss.
The worst **** going.Quote:
Originally Posted by .Sean.
😀 correct!Quote:
Originally Posted by pollution
When you phone almost any big company, often not freephone, only to hear a recording saying you can go online. Well I've been online to find your phone number (does anyone use the phone book these days?) and I want to speak to a human being. That's why I'm phoning!
Dogs in parks etc without a lead. Yes they do jump on me with muddy paws and dribbly jaws. As often as not the owners or handlers or whatever you call selfish people who allow this just call the animal's name! Control your pest!!
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Originally Posted by stuart-farquhar
Very annoying. I had 3 run up and do just that to me when I was on a run earlier this year too - my attempt to escape seen me run into nettles (wearing shorts). Owners were shouting but clearly couldn't control their dogs. Thankfully I was just myself so mostly just waited it out - if I was with my girlfriend who is scared of dogs then her panic could have set them off more.
So the peeve relates to owners rather than the dogs then? I'm certainly not walking round the park with my dog on a lead.Quote:
Originally Posted by stuart-farquhar
Also, dogs that honk. We were sat in the pub the other week and this huge big thing came in with the owners who proceeded to feed it some dog chew things. Within about 10 minutes the pub was honking like a manky dog basket. We had to move it was that bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by stuart-farquhar
Are owners oblivious of the smell or they just not care?
That guy on "come dine with me"
Speak properly you twat
I'm pretty sure you don't have to, the law only says that the dog has to be under control,,,, many are not!Quote:
Originally Posted by Hiber-nation
I'll put my hands up and admit a dog under my care jumped on to a pushchair and muddied up a young boy. I was dog sitting a Ridgeback (so not the smallest) when I took it a walk at 7 in the morning, it's recall was normally quite good so I was happy for it to have a run off the lead at the local park. As we turned a corner at David Lloyds, the dug spies someone new to play with and bolts over. I'd as well have been mute for all the good my shouting was doing, by the time I'd caught up he had his muddy paws on the infant. Although he's the friendliest of beasts, strangers wouldn't know this. Thankfully the "mum" was very understanding but I was so annoyed at myself, I'd looked after this dog every now and then since he was a pup,,,,, he doesn't get off the leash at all now!
Any product name that replaces S with Z, like City Roomz, seriously winds me up more than it should
Both.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hiber-nation
Tip: if you're going to go out running in shorts in a public park, smear your crotch with peanut butter to keep dogs away from you. :agree:Quote:
Originally Posted by danhibees1875
That wouldn't end well - I'm allergic to peanuts.Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
Alternatively, for a more intense workout stick a mars bar up your arse and encourage them to chase youQuote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
You think?Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.lad...81102.amp.html
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Bl**dy hell! Crunchy or smooth? The facts matterQuote:
Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod
Crunchy before, smooth afterwards?Quote:
Originally Posted by wpj
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This thread is turning a bit weird....the dog is dead.
Something that bugs me is the number of people that refer to the ground as the floor, particularly when you see police tv programmes telling suspects to get on the floor when their out in the street.
to me a floor is indoors and the ground is outside. :confused:
Then you'll find yourself pursued by the Rolling Stones which is a bonus I suppose.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jones28
Folk getting "UEFA" wrong.
Looking for Holiday flights and the departure and return airport are different . WTF?
Non-iron shirts. Just a lie.
Are they iron shirts though?Quote:
Originally Posted by Danderhall Hibs
Cotton I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by danhibees1875
I wear shirts every work day and travel a lot. Never tried them but was curious as to whether they were effective. Are they really that bad?Quote:
Originally Posted by Danderhall Hibs
(Top travel tip - if you do have to pack shirts, iron them first, then when you unpack, hang them in your hotel bathroom and turn the shower on full heat for twenty minutes - all the creases come out due to the steam).
Unless my washing machine folds the shirts more than Charles Tyrwhitt or TM Lewin expected then yes they’re just like any other shirt.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mibbes Aye
Good tip - I usually just unfold and hang up. If really bad I get the iron out (again)...
And we're wondering why our environment is changing and trying to kill us. :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mibbes Aye
Cheers, I'll give them a swerve.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danderhall Hibs
As for hotels, their irons are usually horrendous and spill brown staining water. Best avoided. The other thing to do is a cheap investment in a couple of foldable travel hangers - lots of hotels have those ones that clip into a lock on the rail so you can't take them into the bathroom.
Ideally, we can move away from what we wear now and wear the non-ironable and seemingly never-washable outfits that we saw in 'Logan's Run' and 'Buck Rogers in the 25th Century'Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
It wasn't just jet packs we were promised :wink:
If you keep using 30 000 litres of water and 5 000 megawatts to steam iron shirts, then we'll all be able to run around in the scud by 2027. That said, in 2027 my birthday suit will need ironing too. :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mibbes Aye
Not sure what point you are making, but if you are criticising steaming shirts while in the shower or even when not in the shower, then okay. I should maybe just plug in an iron and use electricity that way?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
From what you've posted, you earn your income in the aviation industry though, which obviously contributes to positive climate change :wink:
Think you are in a glass house throwing stones and I bet my occasional shower with a shirt in the bathroom doesn't add up to 0.0001% cent of what you do on a daily basis.
Either way, air travel isn't environmentally friendly, and me using electricity to steam shirts isn't either. I try to limit it by hacks like hanging my clothes up while I shower.
To end on a positive note, maybe you could share what passengers could or should do on flights to be more eco-friendly? Most sensibly-minded folk would be receptive IMO.
eufaQuote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
I think there's good and bad environmental aspects of air travel. The bad mainly being that it causes large areas of natural land to be croncreted over to build airports. On the plus it's far more environmentally friendly to transport 400 people per aircraft than by other tradtional fossel fuelled methods.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mibbes Aye
P.S. You didn't say you were in the shower at the time so I had visions of you at the bar whilst your shirt was er......... ironing :doh:
They're not bad. For them to be non iron, I find I need to remove them from the washing machine straight away and dry them on a hanger. If I do that then generally you get away without ironing them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mibbes Aye
They are definitely easier to iron than a lot of normal shirts so still an improvement.
Vaping. I got a whiff of strawberry recently behind a vaper.
Surely, you'd want your vape to taste like tobacco?
It's a free world I suppose.
Depends whether you're vaping to give up smoking or just reducing your tobacco use. Vaping tobacco flavours makes it harder to give up completely.Quote:
Originally Posted by heretoday
Work colleagues. Not anyone specifically, just in general. I'm convinced workplaces are made up of about 5% of people who actually do the job they are paid to, 4% who do their job and then go 'over and above' to pick up the slack, 1% who have the authority to delegate to the above groups and then 90% of people are essentially just being paid appearance money and maybe send the odd email or shuffle some paper on a Monday morning.
I've sat opposite the same woman since I started. She has been at our company about double the time I have and anytime anything a bit out the ordinary comes up there's a sigh and always, ****ing always, a 'I don't even know where to start with this'. So I show her something she has seen 50 times before and we move on then it's 'can I just check....' then I check and inevitably say 'no that's wrong you need to...' and I get a 'I'm just not getting it' so I end up just taking the whole thing as it saves time for everyone. She sits with a little smirk and goes back to reading the Daily Mail online or whatever she is paid to do. I just want to grab her and tell her this is your ****ing job you lazy, workshy, coniving freeloader. This is repeated across the board. Someone calls for accounts and you try to hand it over: 'take a message' so you take a message, pass it on and 3 days later get a phone call from an irate person who hasn't had a call back. Try to pass that on? 'Just take a message'. Someone requests a call back about a product and their account handler will 'get round to it'; as sure as night follows day you'll get a call back the next day asking why no one has been in touch. 'Oh I forgot, you couldn't just sort that for me mate?' Aye no bother I'll push back stuff for my customers so I can bump up your sales figures.
I'm going to set up a business as a dog walker or something. Talking to dogs all day has to be preferable to dealing with the shower of cretins I share a carpet with all week. And they wonder why I don't go on work nights out.
You have hit the nail on the head, Pretty Boy.
It used to astonish me that these type of slackers survive, but they do. It's called playing the game. Do as little as possible but just enough
to not arouse managerial concerns. They rely on someone with a conscience to unwittingly cover for them. They truly don't give a hoot.
The only thing they get is their just deserts - they will always be sitting across the desk with no hope or ambition whereas you will move higher.
Just remember to move up asap. Good luck!
What I find strange is that, for me at least, the working day seems to pass a lot quicker if you, erm, work.
I'm lucky in that I enjoy my job, but last week I had a situation where I was at an impasse on each of the 3-4 projects I'm working on (waiting for information, client decisions, etc.). It was brutal as I couldn't find anything worthwhile to get my teeth into.
I'm well capable of stopping for a blether or having a squint at the Internet, but I definitely find working far more fulfilling than kidding on.
Agreed. Problem I’ve got is I’ve no work to do so I hate my job :greengrin. Thankfully they’ve let me start working from home so I at least now get to spend about half my week doing nothing while at home!Quote:
Originally Posted by Peevemor
All fun and games until you set the smoke alarms off... Been there and done that!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mibbes Aye
Deary me Sean.Quote:
Originally Posted by .Sean.
Always travel with a wee plastic bag and a few elastic bands, bag over detector and elastic band over them, hey presto.:greengrin
Also handy if you Vape as wellQuote:
Originally Posted by silverhibee
Food that has a bit of wrapper that sticks to it when you open it.
The phrasing "I identify as...".
:agree:Quote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
WHAM bars are terrible for this :greengrin
Black jacks and fruit salads were a nightmare for it too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lemonade
Careless Wispas too! ☺Quote:
Originally Posted by Lemonade
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Originally Posted by HUTCHYHIBBY
:faf::top marks
Not always wise to cover detectors as some systems can show this up as a fault and can say which room or section is faulty
Or there may be a genuine fire in your room which goes undetected at the earliest possible stage, costing your life and the lives of others...Just saying.Quote:
Originally Posted by staunchhibby
Edam, when the rind doesn't peel off in a one goQuote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
Folk who get on the train carriage at the opposite end to where their seats are with big bags/suitcases and haul them the full length. It’s not difficult to look at the seating numbers at the door before you board.
How else am I meant to vape in the shower while I de-crease my clothes?Quote:
Originally Posted by Future17
The low cut waistecoats that seem to be in fashion these days. They look awful IMO. I like a waistcoat with a suit but these new types are an abomination!
You should really decrease your clothes before you get in the shower.Quote:
Originally Posted by SRHibs
He’s a legendQuote:
Originally Posted by Bangkok Hibby
I’ve probably mentioned it before, but people who press the button and immediately walk across the road at pedestrian crossings. If the road is clear just cross without pressing the button. It’s not at pedestrian crossings that it’s a problem, it’s at normal junctions. The idiot presses the button and crosses and a couple of minutes later the traffic is left at a standstill while no one is crossing the road. I see it every day and it does my nut in.
I've started lowering the window and shouting abuse at people who do this, now. There should be a rule that if you press the button then you must wait for the green man, and if you break that rule you should be horsewhipped, or better. There's hardly any pedestrian crossings in Edinburgh that able-bodied adults really need to press buttons at, except during rush hours. It's just a lazy, sloppy, selfish habit which adds hugely to cyclists' and motorists' journey times, pollution, lung diseases, etc etc etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by lord bunberry
There should be a cancel button at crossings.Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
If there's traffic when I get to a crossing, I'll push the button. If there's an adequate break in the traffic before I get a green Man, I'll walk.
I find it very rarely happens though. It's either a busy junction that means I can't walk, or it's a crossing that goes to red quite quickly for the cars. But that's because I'm usually walking at peak times I guess.
Same for me, push the button and wait, if a break in traffic comes before the green man I will cross, don’t see the problem really.Quote:
Originally Posted by danhibees1875
The problem is that most of the time you can anticipate there'll be a break in traffic in a few moments, so why not just wait for that break so that the traffic can continue to flow? 10 cars stopping and starting when there was no need just pumps more crap into the atmosphere and people's lungs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibby
Way I look at it is, every time you unnecessarily press the button, you unnecessarily shorten someone's life. Whereas every time you look right, look left, look right again, then cross if it's safe to do so, you lengthen someone's life.
I never used to press the button to cross the road, im generally pretty good at getting across myself but in recent times drivers have became such dicks to pedestrians, especially the ones who shout out their windows, i now press the button just before i cross, because I can :greengrin
Why the hell im expected to thank someone for stopping at a zebra crossing is quite beyond me. They do get a bit upset when i dont though.
The way I look at it is that as a driver I have to stop either way if the person's pressed the button, whether they've crossed before the lights or waited. It doesn't bother me.Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee